Anne Hathaway: 'I planned to stay single'

The One Day actress said that Shulman "totally ruined" her plans to remain on her own when she fell in love with him.

She told Marie Claire: "I am very much in love. Adam totally ruined my plan. I was really actually looking forward to a little alone time and then I fall in love like a fool.

"It's three years. It's serious!"

Hathaway's ex-boyfriend Raffaello Follieri was imprisoned for four-and-a-half years in 2008 after pleading guilty to cheating investors out of millions of dollars, and the 28-year-old explained that she dealt with her heartache by joking about it.

She added: "That was how I got through my pain. I wrote funny songs about it. That's always been the way I deal with things. You make a joke of it."